Rev John Simpson
13 Browning Street
Portland
P: 5523 2257
M: 0428 780 421
simmoj@datafast.net.au

Rev Michael Drennan
11 Webb Court
Portland
P: 5523 4893
M: 0408 568 887
mdrennan@eftel.net.au

Jim Blake
39 Patrick Street
Portland
P: 5523 2347
M: 0425 714 633

including Infant Dedication (plus Sunday School inc. Gr. 5 & 6) Speaker: John

11:30am Morning Tea
2:00pm Lewis Court Service
4:00pm Robin Mann Concert - Wesley
5:00pm FUEL Youth Study at the Shed

7:30pm Home Group at L&D Oakley’s
7:30pm Home Group at R&R Mibus’
8:00pm Young Adults’ Home Group

kind donations. Items most needed include: soup; spaghetti; jam; tea; coffee; sugar; toiletries; tuna; biscuits. Place your items in the foyer supermarket trolley or in the marked box on the piano downstairs .

notices in the bulletin, please contact Wilma Crouch on 5523 3595 or email crouchcastle@hotkey.net.au by 10am Thursdays. Thank you.

Lighthouse Depression Support Meeting: Tuesday 24th at PAC - 7:30pm
Harbourside Lodge Service: Wednesday 25th - 2:00pm
Obninsk Team Report Evening: Sunday 29th August - 6:30pm

A very warm welcome to all those visiting with us
today, especially the families and friends of Bianca
Adams as we join Paul and Jolene in celebrating her
dedication this morning. Thank you for being with us.
Please join us for Morning Tea after the service.

George Mackley, Lionel Atwell, Joe
Wiltshire, Matthew Harris, Jim Coates,
Gillian Karlberg, Patty Edwards, Keith
Whitbourne, Graham Adams. Wilma
Crouch has had surgery this week.

Alexey, the Cunningham and Rayside families. Remember Norm and Karen in Central Australia

the recent natural catastrophes:
monsoonal floods (Pakistan), bush
fires (Russia), mud slide (China).

Deacons: Paul Adams, Jim Blake, Len
Caddick, Bruce Honeybun, Rosie
Honeybun, Jon Lambert, Roger Mibus,
Jan Westlake

Direct Debit Payments for offerings and donations can be made electronically. Details are as follows:

the information sheets (blue & yellow) and envelopes are available in the porch.

You can deposit straight into the building fund via internet banking using the following information:

I have had a very eventful June and July. Some of the highlights: my
trip to Moscow to join our own Russian Team for a few days in
Obninsk. It was great being with my church friends visiting the
church in Obninsk, a rehab centre and an orphanage.

I flew to a conference in Kyrgystan right on the beaches of Lake
Issykul. At the same time there was dreadful ethnic violence in the
south of the country. There were delays in entering the country but
marvellous to catch up with my Interserve colleagues, many of whom
I only knew via their emails.

I and a friend baptised my housemate in the bath. She belongs to a
house church but the people there had kept postponing her baptism
without reason. So, I made sure she understood what baptism
represented and the baptism proceeded. A great moment.

Everyone made sure my first summer birthday was a happy time.
We had a great lunch and then dinner out– with my Interserve
friends.

I have finished teaching two courses: my usual schedule is two 2-hour
classes with a half hour break in between. I am not teaching during
August.

Aug 17 Ezekiel 5:1-9:11
Aug 18 Ezekiel 10:1-13:23
Aug 19 Ezekiel 14:1-16:63
Aug 20 Ezekiel 17:1-19:14
Aug 21 Ezekiel 20:1-22:16
Aug 22 Ezekiel 22:17-23:49

2 Kings 24:20-25:2
Jeremiah 52:3-5
Jeremiah 39:1
Ezekiel 24:1-14

to everyone who joined us for our monthly

Prayer Day on Friday. Thank you for your time and your prayers. Special thanks to our more senior friends who faithfully come to prayer day and prayer meetings all year round - despite the discouraging weather this week.

Please join us at 10.30am Tuesdays at the Church House or at 7:00am on Fridays at Jim & Judy

Our next Church Meeting will be held next Sunday 22nd August at 12.30pm. Agendas are available today, both upstairs and downstairs - please take a copy home to read and make the effort to be with us. As

bring finger food lunch to share after morning tea.

For all Music Lovers, people interested in combining
their faith with their vote and all those who enjoy a
good feed and great company.

Performance & Participation
5:45pm: Pot-Luck Dinner [Bring food to share!]
7:00 pm: Forum - Your Faith, Your Vote, Your Voice

reading your Chronological Bibles! Don't get too far behind will you? It's easier to keep up than drop back a few days. And if you are not following the CB, do make sure that you are reading your Bible in a systematic way. Needing help?